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  • People and Blogs by Manuel

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    Curtis McHale

    Latest entry in People & Blogs by Manuel. I only recently came across this site so didn’t realize it was a recurring series of posts but I love it. I’ve been recently thinking about how to increase the other writers/sites I highlight and this might be a good idea I can riff on to help

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  • Is Substack so Bad? – 3 Threads

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    Curtis McHale

    Want to support my writing, share it. Put a link on your blog or share it on social media. Write it on a postcard and leave it at your local coffee shop. Note: Not 3 threads today but one longer piece. Regular programming should resume. Prompted by this very reasonable sounding podcast with the CEO

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  • The Content Production Trap

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    Curtis McHale

    Peter McKinnon has a good video executing content. I’ve fallen into this over the last few months, stopped making content then kept finding reasons to not make content. I’m trying to set aside time every Friday to get a video out the door.

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  • Chris – Blogs are for Humans

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    Curtis McHale

    I agree with Chris the more of the writer is in the blog the more I’m interested. Yes I want to hear about your golf weekend with kids, or your struggle with technology or your garden. Yes I do want to read your longer writing that more philosophical. I want to read interesting things from

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  • Maximum Time Usage, Your Notes and Blogging – 3 Threads

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    Curtis McHale

    This is brought to you by members, become one to keep the content coming. Full Maximum Capacity Time Usage Dami Lee is talking about slow reading here but I took exception to one comment in the beginning of the video which I linked to. She talks about reading books that had a big impact on

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  • Capitalism time, Read your Writing, and Algorithmic Avarice – 3 Threads

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    Curtis McHale

    As always this is brought to you by members and courses so to keep the site going consider joining. Capitalism Time After a long summer of not reading much I finally finished Saving Time by Jenny Odell and one big idea stuck out to me this week in light of my post on 5-Year timeframes.

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  • Matt on Professional Tools

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    Curtis McHale

    Matt contends that professional tools need 3 things: This is why I stick with Neovim. It just works the way it’s supposed to work all the time and doesn’t update with new tools (like some AI shit) because the company thinks it needs to get AI into its tools. Finally, I can create any workflow

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  • Blogging challenges for November

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    Curtis McHale

    Lou shared some blogging challenges for November. Could I write 9,000,000 or more words this month?

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  • Rands on Your Writing

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    Curtis McHale

    I write for me. When I write about programming it’s because I want to remember something I just learned. When I write about other stuff it’s for similar reasons, to help solidify my thoughts on a topic. If others like it, that’s a bonus.

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  • All About Writing from Production to Consumption – 3 Threads

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    Curtis McHale

    This is publication is reader supported. All members get my book notes, and course supporters get all my courses and published books. Plus, members get a fairly regular extra instalment of my writing. Everyone Thinks They Can Write In an interview with Steven Pressfield some interesting ideas came up. First was Pressfield’s assertion that everyone

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